Combined cigar clipper and perforator



(No Model.)

C. KLAIBER 8v A. CURRIER. GOMBINBD GIGA'R QLIPPER AND PERPORATOR. No. 289,351.

Patented Nov. 27,1883;`

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CONRAD KLAIBER AND ALFRED CURRIER,4 OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

COMBINED CIGAR CLIPPER AND PERFORATOR.

SPIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.l 289,351, dated November 27, 1883.

Application tiled August 17, 1883. (No model) .To all whom it 1mi/,y concern:

Be it known that we, CONRAD KLAIBER and ALFRED CURRIER, citizens of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Cigar Clipper and Perforator, of which the iollowing is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in a cigarclipper,`in which a knife shaped at the end on an angle to produce a shear cut, and

also provided with spurs or perforators, (both operated bv the saine movement.) are employed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a plan view of the top of the case, showing the openings to receive cigars. Fig. 2 is a View ofthe top of the inner case with the coverremoved, showing the knives and spurs ready to operate. Fig.V 3 is a vertical side section; Fig. 4, an end section.

Similar letters of reference refer to corresponding parts throughout the several figures.

O O in Fig. l represent the openings to receive the cigars for clipping.

P represents an opening to receive cigars to be perforated.

E E show plates to which the knives and spurs are soldered.

F representsa bar in theinner case on which the plates rest. The line R shows the width of a steel knife,which is fastened to aplate,E. N are spurs attached to the plates E.- The plates may be made of cast-iron, and steel knives and spurs soldered on, or they may be punched out of sheet-steel.

L L represent rods or screws which pass through the outer case, C, and form bearings for arms G G. i

K K represent ears on plates E E, towhich the arms G G are attached by means of pins M.

I I represent screws by which the cover A is fastened to the inner case, B, by means of lugs S S.

D represents a wooden base.

T represents a bar that slips over lugs u, (shown in Figs. 3 and 4,) holding the base in place. This bar T is fastened to the base by means of screws or staples V V, as shown in Fig. 3.

HH are coiled springs hooking over screws I I, and into holes J J of arms G G. When the inner case is pressed down, it is drawn back quickly by means of these springs H H.

Dotted lines W in Figs. 3 and 4. show the forni ofthe inner case. When the inner case is pressed down, it throws the knives past openings O O,thereby making a clear shear cut, and withthe same movement the spurs N N are thrown forward, passing each other and nnder the opening I), driving them through the end of a cigar placed therein.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. Inner case, B, having openings O O and P in the top A, in combination with knives E E, having spurs N N, attached thereto, as described, cross-bar F, box C, and pivoted arms G G, arranged substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

2. Cases Band C,in combination with knives E E, having spurs N N, cross-bar F, arms G G, rods L L, and springs H H, arranged substantially as described,and for the pnrposesset forthl 3. Cases B and C, having bar F, knives E E, having spurs N N, arms G G, rods L L, and springs H H, in combination with removable base D, arranged substantially as described. l

CONRAD KLAIEEE. ALFRED oUERiEF..

Vitnesses:

FRED S. CLARK, BIRNEY HoY'r. 

